Big Boy

This restaurant was built in 1949 by locals Scott MacDonald and Ward Albert and is the oldest remaining Bob's Family Restaurant in America. It was designed by respected architect Wayne McAllister incorporating the 1940s Transitional design of Streamline Modern Style ...

Saluting Guns Battery

Year built: 1957

Guns Manufactured by:

Miehle Printing Press Manufacturing Co.

Chicago, Illinois (1942 - 1943)

Specifications:

3" 50 caliber

Slide: Mk 22, wt. 1381 lbs.

Carriage: Mk 11 Mod 9, wt. 2159 lbs.

Marker is on Dunlap Circle, in the median.

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Pabst Theater

Designed by Otto Strack and built by Milwaukee brewing magnate Captain Frederick Pabst, the Pabst Theater was constructed on the site of an earlier opera house destroyed by fire in 1895. The Pabst was completed in just six months and ...

Bowlingly

? Surveyed 15 September, 1658, for James Bowling as “Bowlingley.” Patented to John Tully May 29, 1660. On August 20-30, 1813, the attack on Queenstown by the British led by Sir James Napier under Sir John Warren took place here; ...

Bowlingly

Estate patented to James Bowling, 1658, and present manor house built 1733. East-west wing added about 1830.

Before dawn, August 2, 1813, British troops under Sir Charles James Napier landed here and after defeating the local militia seriously damaged ...

Battle of Slippery Hill

August 13, 1813

American Videttes skirmished with approximately 300 British troops under the command of Col. Sir Thomas Sidney Beckwith as they advanced on Queenstown along this road. Two British soldiers and Beckwith’s horse were killed. Fearful of being cut off ...

Blunck House

Blunck House

In 1905, the newly remodeled

Northern Hotel was opened by

a group of local investors. H.L.

Daily found sucess in that

venture, and prosperity led

him to have this stately family

home built in 1906. The house

was sold in 1911 to Charles ...

Barber Fitness Center

Colonel William E. Barber

United States Marine Corps

Commanding Officer, Company F, Second Battalion

Seventh Marines, First Marine Division

Awarded the Medal of Honor, Chosin Reservoir, Korea, from

28 November to 2 December, 1950

This gallant Marine fought bravely for his Country

Marker is on Barnett Avenue ...

Abraham Lincoln - Eighth Judicial District

Mt. Pulaski, Illinois

Abraham Lincoln

traveled this way as he rode the Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District ···1847 - 1857

Marker is on East Cooke Street east of South Washington Street, on the left when traveling east.

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Birthplace of Charles Willson Peale

First Free School of Queen Anne’s County erected near here 1724. Its sixth master was Charles Peale, father of the distinguished portrait painter and museum founder—born 1741 in living quarters near the school.

Luther Martin, renowned Barister, was among ...